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A top Kenyan wildlife conservation group is enlisting the help of an unlikely partner to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction: Tinder. Yes, the dating app.

At age 43, Sudan, the last surviving male northern white rhino on the planet, is living at Ol Pejeta, a conservancy in Laikipia, and can’t naturally breed with the last two remaining females of his species because of the group’s relatively advanced age.